Word: blame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Tower himself and Sununu helped engineer this debacle, Bush is also to blame. His insecurities and a stubborn streak make him leery of admitting outsiders, especially people who have independent followings, into his inner circle. Most new Presidents display this flaw to some extent, but Bush has it worse than, say, Ronald Reagan, who eight years ago put together an effective team that mixed old friends and talented people he barely knew, some staunchly conservative, others not. In contrast, says a former Bush adviser who played a large role in the transition, Bush "always asked...
...blame for the booksellers' decision to take the book off their shelves must be shared by the U.S. government. In the face of such a slow official reaction to the Khomeini threats, booksellers clearly felt that they had no choice...
...finale begins in rather dull trench coats, but it culminates in the night's finest costuming moment--with the actor's bodies more to blame than the costume designers: the revue dancers bare all but their skin-tone bodysuits and pink-feather fans...
Lord's main sin was that he had served as a close aide to Henry Kissinger, whom Helms Republicans and Jackson Democrats will forever blame for detente and SALT. Now that is bipartisanship...
...chemicals and other materials needed to turn coca leaves into cocaine flow from the industrialized nations to the Third World. By participating in this Faustian technology transfer, the drug-consumer nations are, in effect, providing vital raw ingredients for the scourge that bedevils them and that they often blame exclusively on coke-producing countries. "Look at all this equipment," said a Colombian police commander last week, surveying the ruins of a coke lab. "It's almost all from the U.S. And these chemicals come from all over the world. All Latin America supplies are the coca leaves and the labor...